There are 48 million SMEs in India and account 8% contribution to economy's GDP. The sector has a huge market potential. Aircel, one of the leading mobile service providers in India and ASKME a local discovery platform entered into unique partnership to provide Pay per lead generation plan through an operating billing system to help SMEs to address their biggest challenge of upfront investment for increasing business, as reported by India Blooms.

ASKME
will promote the registered SMEs through its various channels and
Aircel will offer easy lead payment solutions on SME prepaid or
postpaid connections, under this partnership. The partnership will
also offer registered SMEs to enjoy the benefits of premium presence
across mediums with quality lead generation and the flexibility to
activate and deactivate the service.

Through this partnership with ASKME, we
plan to enhabce our enterprise business and offer the segment to grow
their business through easy lead payment solutions. This partnership
is an excellent amalgamation of ASKME's robust reach in the SME
segment and Aircel's innovative offerings in the marketplace, Vasudev
added.

Jaspreet Bindra, CEO, Getit Infomedia
commented, “this is a first of its kind partnership in India
wherein a telco and an online business have come together to tap the
SME market”.

We bring in over a decade of experience
of working with SMEs and working with Aircel would definitely help us
further enhance it, Bindra stated.

“Under this partnership, we aim
to cover the untapped SMEs through this unique model which has been
customised keeping in mind the requirements of Indian SMEs. We hope
the Pay per lead model will ensure a fair revenue model for SMEs and
create a trusted business ecosystem,”Bindra added.

To get local search information of
various sectors like hospitality, real estate, automotive services,
furniture and furnishing, apparel etc. customers can just dial toll
free number 54422 or log on to askme.com.